Islam is not a race
Whenever one condemns Islamist ideas, one is often labeled as a "racist." This is irksome, as Islamism is a political and religious ideology that transcends racial barriers. This assertion was demonstrated last month when Mireille, a Belgian woman blew herself up in a suicide attack against a US convoy in Iraq. From what I've been able to gather, Mireille was a Walloon (a Belgian of more-or-less French extraction), and was born into a well-off middle-class Christian family. Her town, Charleroi, is very close to the French border- Napoleon crossed into Belgium there during his hundred days campaign in 1815.
How did she end up as a suicide bomber? She married a radical Moroccan and converted to Islam. She was radicalised through his influence, and they departed for Iraq. He was killed by American troops in the theatre. She ended her life near a US Military Checkpoint on November 9, attempting to kill fellow westerners.
She was not born into a condition of want. She lived in the very shadow of the European Union, in the presence of (so Europeans think) the ultimate culmination of western thought. Yet she embraced radical Islam, and attempted to murder soldiers of another NATO country on the field of battle.
This demonstrates the falsity of leftist ideas concerning Islamism. They reduce everything to mere material want. They cannot see anyone challenging their philosophy, so they use its tenets to describe a situation even if said tenets do not fit. This is a great weakness, as their "progressive" ideas hold that some "tide" of history sweeps away any opposition to their ideas. This doesn't happen, but they can't deny their ideas, so they try to adapt an unchangeable thing to fit into their schema. As we see from this incident, Islamism is a serious threat both in the sense of its violence and its ideas. Whether European "third-way" thinkers would like to admit it or not, there is serious competition going on. Of course, competition gets easier when you do this to your ideological opponents (warning: disturbing).
How did she end up as a suicide bomber? She married a radical Moroccan and converted to Islam. She was radicalised through his influence, and they departed for Iraq. He was killed by American troops in the theatre. She ended her life near a US Military Checkpoint on November 9, attempting to kill fellow westerners.
She was not born into a condition of want. She lived in the very shadow of the European Union, in the presence of (so Europeans think) the ultimate culmination of western thought. Yet she embraced radical Islam, and attempted to murder soldiers of another NATO country on the field of battle.
This demonstrates the falsity of leftist ideas concerning Islamism. They reduce everything to mere material want. They cannot see anyone challenging their philosophy, so they use its tenets to describe a situation even if said tenets do not fit. This is a great weakness, as their "progressive" ideas hold that some "tide" of history sweeps away any opposition to their ideas. This doesn't happen, but they can't deny their ideas, so they try to adapt an unchangeable thing to fit into their schema. As we see from this incident, Islamism is a serious threat both in the sense of its violence and its ideas. Whether European "third-way" thinkers would like to admit it or not, there is serious competition going on. Of course, competition gets easier when you do this to your ideological opponents (warning: disturbing).
posted by The Admiral at 11:54 PM
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